Yard of the Month

The yard of Jan Scurlock on County Road 2436 at Lake Brenda has been chosen by the Fannie Marchman Garden Club as the Yard of the Month for September. During the 2 ½ years Scurlock has lived there she has removed an entire bed of hedge in front of her house and replaced it with a more relaxed, country garden look. She has lots of perennials as base plants including hydrangeas, azaleas, abelia, camellia and spirea and fills in with annuals like geraniums, pink splash and coleus. Yard art embellishes several areas and she has worked wonders in creating new flowerbeds in her backyard. Her backyard includes a passion flower draped gazebo swathed in turk’s caps and several other plants surrounding it. (Monitor photo by Doris Newman)